Tuesday we flew from Luxor back to Cairo. Originally we'd planned to take a train for that leg too, but it is much longer, about 9 hours, so we changed our minds. I'd previously taken advantage of having internet access while in South Korea to book the flight from Luxor to Cairo so we didn't need to take the train.
Wednesday we had our flight from Cairo to Zurich, Switzerland. The full heatwave hit Cairo and it was 114F when we left. It was a pleasant 61F in Zurich. I think Yanmei was happy to be out of Egypt. As the plane started descend to Zurich, she looked out the window and announced she likes here more. We were still at 25,000 feet. 🙂 Our flight was late so we didn't see much of Zurich today, we'll explore tomorrow
This concludes the planned parts of our trip. We have no further flights booked, although we'll need to book the flight to Canada soon before it gets too expensive. We're considering skipping Iceland now. Yanmei's Schengen visa is good for 41 days, and that includes Iceland, so if we don't go there we have more time in mainland Europe. We have Eurail passes for traveling around Europe by train. Now we are hoping to just float around, if we like a place, stay longer, if not move on.
-David
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